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Vendors left items that the F&F said they wanted
Completed on my house yesterday. At the fixtures and fittings stage we had a bit of to and fro around the shed and the wheelie bins - we both wanted them. In the end I agreed the vendors could take them. However neither the shed or the bins were taken. There's also some other things such as a BBQ which has seen better…
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Snagging Survey
So we have our mortgage offer from Halifax on a new build. When is the best time to arrange a snagging survey, the house is due to be finished at the end of June. And can anyone recommend a company (sorry if that not allowed)
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Buying freehold of house - Freeholder not responding to letters
My house is a leasehold with somewhere between 680-700 years left on the lease. The ground rent is £1.50 a year that is actually paid by the end house of our block of 4 (has been this way forever, apparently). After 3 years owning the house my solicitor served notice last October on the freeholder to sell it to me. They…
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Former Mining Area
Hello all, Our home buyers report states that "The property is located in a former coal mining area. A copy of the coal mining report should be obtained to confirm the extent of any potential risk" We have already paid our solicitor for the search pack. Is this generally included in the searches carried out by the…
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Anyone Used doorstepagents.com ?
£99 for a DIY service, or £199 for photos and floorplans to be done for you. They list on Rightmove and Zoopla and more. Although £60 extra for a board outside the house, and £88 for a featured ad on RM, Zoopla etc. Anyone used them?
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Dispute with would-e landlord
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Advice acquiring freehold
Hi I would really appreciate some advice please. It's a convoluted story so i will try to keep to the facts. I viewed a 5 bed detached house to in a lovely estate. The estate matched all our criteria and the Mrs fell in love with it, to quote it's a house she never thought we could own! The house interior was in terrble…
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selling french apartment
Hi we are having trouble selling our french apartment. Has anybody used the property buying companies? How much under the asking price do they offer ?
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New stamp duty help please!
Hello, Im wondering if someone can help with the new stamp duty on house purchases on the below situation please? I own a residential property in my sole name and my partner lives with me. My partner owns a buy to let property which he has never lived in and was bought solely for renting out. My property is our main…
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Are we been played?
Found a house we liked at 230k but the estate agent told us the sellers would take 220k we eventually went to 219 and the sellers had a long think but declined and said they spoke to family and now want the full price of 230. We couldn't go that high so decided to leave it, we got a call monday saying they havent had much…
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Can someone have a look at this?
So after posting earlier in the week about lack of movement in the purchase of our new house, we received the invert and title deeds yesterday. We have two bits of paper for the title deeds, 1 showing the house in the street with a red box around it and the garden, all seems realivtly normal. The next bit of paper shows…
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Finally Got An Offer (Social Housing)
Some of you will remember me.., was in private rental, LL was pretty poor, not doing repairs, threatening to evict me if I I tried to insist certain repairs he WAS supposed to do but still didn't do them. Then after four years he issued a S21 and evicted us, but this was after two years of 'I might sell' stress - not…
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To wait or not to wait
After 4 years of renting I now feel ready get a mortgage. The quandary I have is as follows - : whilst I have a good credit history and a decent enough deposit saved, not a huge one but enough, my partners credit history isn't good. She has x4 defaults, 3 of which will drop off in the next 12-24 months and the last one…
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Rental agreement cooling off period
Hi After many hours of searching, I've just moved in to a new rental property and signed a 12 month contract - a licence agreement (not a lease) with the letting agency at a fixed monthly rental, which I had negotiated down the monthly rent by £60. A few days after I moved into the flat the letting agency called to say…
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Renting out my house, Warm air heating or Central heating
Hello all, The old boiler in my new property needs replacing. The existing system is an old warm air type. I've had a couple of quotes, it seems that a new combi system will cost about the same as a new warm air boiler, with hot water cylinder replaced. I also need to take out the old asbestos flue, on the advice of the…
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Renting: credit score and income
Me and my partner are looking to move but since we moved into this house I have stopped working to have children. My partner has an absolutely awful credit score but he has a well paid job. My credit score is very good but I have no income. Is there any way we can move?
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2 weeks to sell house
We found a house we want to buy about 6 weeks ago after accepting an offer on our house from a first time buyer. Since then our buyer has pulled out and the vendors in the house we want to buy have given us 2 weeks to "sell" again or they will remarket. We are panicking a bit! We've had 5 viewings since last Friday with 3…
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Weird landlord- no agreement
A woman I work and her sister moved into a rented property almost a year ago and is worried as to the situation with her landlord and landlady. They are an elderly couple and it seems they are not fully aware of landlords responsibilities. She says they are very nice but haver not provided any of the things a landlord…
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Estate agency terms
I am close to putting a house on the market and looking at estate agency terms. I'm a 'first time seller' and don't know if the terms offered are normal or reasonable. Is a minimum fee normal? If the sale price goes below a certain amount is it right the agent should get a proportionally greater fee when he has achieved a…
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Is Estate Agent passing over our offer to vendor
Ok so our story is FTB with Agreement in principal ready to proceed , 10am Tuesday viewed house 12pm Tuesday made offer asking price £132,000 our offer £121,000 old style semi detached in need of renovating. EA advised vendor was in America, Wednesday morning called for answer EA said offer rejected so we went in at…
